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Micah Lexier
Micah Lexier
1960 -
Micah Lexier is an artist, curator, designer and collaborator on many diverse projects known for his minimal and conceptual work. He uses ready-mades, doodles, drawings, posters, T-shirts, multiples and prefabricated sculptural objects to consider, examine and measure different perceptions of the self. Lexier was born in 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1982 he completed a BFA at the University of Manitoba and graduated with an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984.
After completing his education, he began exhibiting his work at notable public galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. From the beginning, Lexier employed a refined, simple aesthetic to consider the formation of identity, whether in terms of the transition to adulthood, or in the exploration of masculinity. As his thinking about identity matured, he began considering the individual (including himself) in terms of a set of basic measurements and quantifiable data, such as a person’s age or their signature. The passage of time has become a central motif in his work - by measuring and comparing durations of actions or even entire lives, including his own, everything is reduced to a quantity of minutes or days, a banal finitude.
In 1995 he embarked on making scribbles that took one minute to execute. He blew up these gestures into stainless steel cut-outs, evoking a sense of permanence, but also anonymity. This work questioned and explored the role of the artist as someone who makes authentic, monumental objects. He even questioned the authority and uniqueness of the artist by allowing his signature to be forged by others.
Lexier's career has been celebrated with awards, major exhibitions and publications. In 2010 I'm Thinking of a Number, a 30-year survey of the artist's invitations, posters and book works was published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In 2013, a major survey exhibition at the Power Plant presented his work in conjunction with a collaborative project involving the work of 101 mostly Toronto-based artists placed within custom-made vitrines. This museum-like presentation played with methods of preservation and temporal encapsulation, but also considered the community Lexier partakes in, focusing less on the figure of the artist and more on the shared experience of exhibiting together. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Lexier has exhibited widely, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. His work has been shown in major international art centres including New York, Berlin and Sydney, and acquired by notable public and private collections, including those of the British Museum in London and the National Gallery of Canada.
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